Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1994

also this is their best non-"motownphilly" upbeat single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnbdCzXtb6o

lol i love the thread this direction has taken but rev you should listen to and rank the poll options

i voted for "longview"

i bought the god single, and monster, and no need to argue, but i think i like einstein on the beach best out of all of them

i still consistently loathe beck

i'd take 4-6 of the songs on the list of non-#1s you posted over any of the poll options i know tho

i think i recorded the more you ignore me video

i was like "how has no one mentioned 'thank you'" and then rev came through

thank you rev

All apologies.

I wonder if younger people who've basically only been exposed to lame, half-assed Scientologist Beck realize that he was actually pretty rad at one time.

i thought he was rad when i was a little 14 y.o. shithead, realized he was lame before i realized he was a clam

i like some beck but i've always hated "loser"

give me any of the hits off odelay or even fucking "sexx laws"

Guero is still my favorite album by him

"God" is probably the song here that suffers most in comparison to the real biggest hit from its parent album, "Cornflake Girl," but it's still pretty fantastic, deserves more love itt

god >>>>> cornflake girl. feels both more direct and more interesting.

pretty awesome carl craig remixes too

although "cornflake girl" is probably my least favourite 90s tori amos single

oh no wait i forgot "past the mission" happened. 2nd least fav.

never trust cultists re: the hits

heh keith caulfield from billboard just posted the top 10 of the hot 100 this week in '94 to his twitter: http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100?chartDate=1994-05-21#/charts/hot-100?chartDate=1994-05-21

the Tevin Campbell song isn't bad.

'90s tori singles ranked

hey jupiter
professional widow
winter
raspberry swirl
bliss
silent all these years
spark
caught a lite sneeze
1000 oceans
cruel
in the springtime of his voodoo
glory of the 80s
crucify
god
pretty good year
concertina
jackie's strength
talula
china
cornflake girl
past the mission

maybe i will do a poll of these at some point

I'd say at the very least that "Caught A Lite Sneeze" should be higher up, but not a bad ranking overall.

I don't know why I thought "Putting The Damage On" was a single, but it apparently wasn't. That would've been top 5.

This list has my favorite Nirvana song (All Apologies), my favorite Green Day song (Longview), very close calls for REM, Pearl Jam and Gin Blossoms (though 'Kenneth' is prolley tied w/ Losing My Religion for second favorite REM single), plus my first Morrissey song, and "Mmm mmm mmm mmm" which I hadn't thought about in years until just recently, and sounds fucking amazing. 94 is not quite my favorite year in music (though it is for movies) but its likely to have been my favorite year to have lived through, music-wise.

"Loser" > "All Apologies" > "About a Girl" (pretending this is the original version) > "Basket Case" > "Come Out and Play" > "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" > "Into Your Arms"

loser is better than absolutely nothing.

clearly

"Into Your Arms" is nice but i remember when that and "Mrs. Robinson" were their biggest songs the Lemonheads got dissed a lot as a 'cover band'

incidentally if you google Lemonheads and 'cover band' there have apparently been several Lemonheads cover bands over the years, which is just mind boggling

voted "Loser"

I was super dismissive of "Loser" when it first came out (it seemed like there were a lot of "look how dumb we are" minor alt-rock hits coming out around then, a la Butt Trumpet and Dead-Eye Dick), but I heard someone playing the album and I totally changed my tune on Beck in general (doubly so after I heard One Foot In The Grave and Stereopathetic Soul Manure). I subsequently reassessed the song as not too bad (although still among the lesser songs on that album).

Man, I'm gonna listen to some fuckin' Mellow Gold now!

yeah a lot of the kids who were heavy into Dookie and the first Weezer repped hard for Mellow Gold but i didn't check for it until after Odelay. there really was kind of a hard shift to a SoCal-heavy alt-rock world around '94, huh.

http://www.radiohitlist.com/KROQ/KROQ-1994.htm

very few duds on this list...at least in the top 50

and three Bad Religion tracks!

that's right, "Yellow Ledbetter" and the Cowboy Junkies version of "Sweet Jane" didn't really become a radio staples until '94, even though both were years old by then

thank Oliver Stone.

nah Natural Born Killers came out in '95, "Sweet Jane" had been on the radio a lot for a year or two already by then

My first reactions to these songs:

Lemonheads, "Into Your Arms" - Where's Juliana?
Pearl Jam, "Daughter" - What do you mean you don't have the CD? The vinyl is right here already.
Gin Blossoms, "Found Out About You" - Why would she put this as the first song on this mixtape?
Nirvana, "All Apologies" - Well, it's better than Something In the Way, at least.
Beck, "Loser" - is this on the right speed?
Crash Test Dummies, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" - From the name, I was expecting some a bit more metal.
Tori Amos, "God" - She is so deep.
Green Day, "Longview" - I can't believe this is on MTV.
Offspring, "Come Out and Play" - I am officially old (said at age 20.)
Green Day, "Basket Case" - Was this originally on Lookout too?
REM, "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" - Dude, I remember that Dan Rather thing when it first happened!
Cranberries, "Zombie" - Welp, I guess Irish songstresses will be the sound of the 90s.

lol killer post

Crash Test Dummies first few albums are actually really solid. They do a nifty cover of The Replacements "Androgynous"! And a song about Superman! But, yeah, "Mmmm" became annoying after too much airplay.

They do a nifty cover of The Replacements "Androgynous"!

I just got a stabbing pain in my abdomen by imagining this.

Thank you for just reminding me that I actually have listened to those early Crash Test Dummies albums. Pretty sure my brain would've continued blocking that info out otherwise.

Basket Case

Top 5:
"Basket Case"
"All Apologies"
"Loser"
"What's The Frequency, Kenneth?"
"Found Out About You"

^^^ the plain and simple truth that has not been spoken enough itt

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Basket Case is still the catchiest shit ever. In retrospect it's not hard to see how a band that could put tracks like that together would still be around, but who would have foreseen five more top 10 albums and two #1's in the 2000s...

At the time I thought Green Day was going to be another catchy pop-punk band that was going to flare up on the radar and then go away a la K's Choice. I do like them but in the back of my mind I still feel that way, so it's perpetually mind-boggling to me to see (for example) posters for the American Idiot touring show all over major marquees in town.

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i just noticed how weird this post is, i assume he's confusing K's Choice with someone else?

you've been here how long and you're just now noticing that I'm weird?

to be fair, Dan, your line describes 95 percent of posters.

I was originally going to say They Eat Their Own but I figured no one but me remembers them.

This is definitely my favourite shreds of all time - was crying the first time i saw it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IhhdsKXAQ

i'm just saying "Not Addict" was a downtempo song that broke 2+ years after Green Day's first hits, so i assume you meant a band other than K's Choice?

the Dummies have a song that alludes to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrick" and another about wanting to be David Byrne, both of which were impossibly cool things when one is 19.